Stephen G. Shaffer

The Hillshire Brands Co. provides meat-centric food solutions for the retail and foodservice markets. The company was founded by Nathan Cummings in 1939 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

HotGigs Inc. delivers web-based solutions and services that help companies efficiently source and manage their contract workforce. Its Contract Workforce Solutions build upon the HotGigs Staffing Exchange, which facilitates the connection and interaction of hiring companies, staffing suppliers and independent consultants. These solutions leverage the large network of contract resources in the HotGigs Staffing Exchange and further automate the contract workforce sourcing and management processes within hiring companies, and drive process improvement and spend management for contingent labor, resulting in significant time and cost savings. HotGigs was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Minneapolis.

Harland Medical Systems, Inc. provides medical device coating and testing equipment. It offers surface modification and drug delivery technologies to the healthcare industry. The company was founded by John Anderson in 2003 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

ABC Technologies, Inc. is the provider of activity-based, business modeling and analysis software that enables organizations to accurately measure performance, evaluate strategies, increase profitability, lower costs and make better management decisions. The company's Oros Analytics and Oros Enterprise suites of applications provide managers with the right information to make better management decisions. The company is headquartered San Francisco, CA.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Jobs2Web, Inc. provides interactive recruiting solutions. It uses interactive marketing technology to help its clients find, engage and know better candidate activity from multiple channels of recruiting. The company was founded by Doug M. Berg and Peter Brasket in 2003 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

Insite Software Solutions, Inc. develops business-to-business e-Commerce platforms. It engages in the provision of B2B eCommerce architected for enterprise organizations in manufacturing and distribution. The firm is a connected commerce ecosystem by bringing together sales channels, integrating siloed information and transaction elements to create one commerce platform. The company is was founded by Brian S. Brian, Linda Taddonio, and Tom Frishberg in 2004 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.